Iceland mid-June 2012: Volkswagen and Suzuki lead the charge

VW Polo. Picture by Captain Andrey.

* See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! *

After Brazil and France, Iceland is the third country on Best Selling Cars Blog for which I am now able to share with you an intermediate ranking at mid-month. In fact, Umferdarstofa, the Icelandic website publishing car sales, updates its data daily! If you are interested in checking car sales in Iceland every day you should click here. At mid-June, 1.003 vehicles were purchased in Iceland, that’s nearly as much as for the full month of May! (1.334). Potentially because in June in Iceland it’s daylight literally 24/7 so there is a lot more time to check out cars in dealerships…

Suzuki Jimny. Picture by k44ril, all rights reserved.

Given the size of the Icelandic car market, monthly and fortnightly models rankings are to be taken with a pinch of salt. While last month Toyota monopolised the podium, in June it’s the turn of Volkswagen to dominate, placing the Polo at #1 with 94 sales and 9.4% share followed by the Golf at 75 units. They are respectively #3 and #6 in the 2012 year-to-date ranking.

Suzuki also has a fantastic time with the Grand Vitara up 32 spots on May to climb onto the podium at #3 with 62 sales and the Jimny up 10 ranks to #5 and 55 units. The Toyota Yaris, #1 year-to-date, is down to #8 while the Skoda Octavia (#2 YTD) is #4. Other great performers over the period include the Hyundai i10 up 40 spots to #9, the Kia Sorento up 14 to #10 and the Toyota Corolla up to #19.

Previous month: Iceland May 2012: Toyota Auris leads, Yaris #1 year-to-date

Previous year: Iceland Full Year 2011: Skoda Octavia takes the lead

Full mid-June 2012 Top 30 Ranking Table below.